Lyrica..the new wonder drug!

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Hi Everyone!

I see alot of talk on Lyrica here so thought I'd share my experience

with it.I live in excruciating pain 24/7 from complications of brain

surgery years ago.My neurologist started me on Lyrica to help reduce my

pain.I've been on it almost a year now and it has worked wonders.The

working dose is 300 mg/day but I can only tolerate half that.If you are

susceptible to lymphedema,as I am, it plays havoc with that.so I take a

lower dose.It does stop the sharp pains that used to happen when I bent

over to pick something up.Now,I can tell you,I KNOW NOT to bend

over,but sometimes it's a knee jerk reaction,and the pain would smack

me right between the eyes.Now,it doesn't do that anymore.That's a huge

gift from the Lyrica.It can make you sleepy on the higher dosage but

doesn't slow me down any.I just received samples of Cymbalta to try for

more pain relief,this in addition to all the other meds I'm on. I see

here that people get headaches from Cymbalta? Is that true? or have I

read that wrong?

Thanks for having this group I love it!

Sue